The explosive growth of data volumes for digital business places a high demand on database management professionals. BMC helps you simplify and transform your data management processes and gain a competitive advantage with our solutions for IMS.

Manage your IMS databases and transactions efficiently to meet the scale and complexity of digital business

Simplify database reorganization

Reduce the effort for maintaining and reorganizing your IMS databases—using an intuitive graphical interface that shows you which databases are approaching performance, space, or recovery thresholds. Protect the integrity of IMS data, and verify and analyze data structures to keep your data in top condition.

Eliminate the risk of application restart

BMC Application Restart Control for IMS automates checkpoint creation and tracking, ensuring that you’ll always restart from a reliable point of consistency. Restart without any application code of JCL changes.

Save significant time and CPU consumption with an external filter that scales back excessive checkpoint activity

Reduce—or even eliminate—batch rerun time, while keeping all your data repositories in sync

Quiesce jobs quickly just before a scheduled outage by ending them at a checkpoint, and rely on those same checkpoints for fast, easy recovery from unplanned outages

Perform restarts painlessly and efficiently with minimal implementation requirements and support for a variety of programming languages

Improve the productivity and efficiency of your IMS environment

The mainframe is the backbone of digital business, and you are in charge of IMS on the mainframe

Quickly deliver the best application performance to your business and your clients, without a disorganized database slowing you down. With BMC database management solutions for IMS, you can run your tasks more often, maintaining more data for less cost, and with better results.

Ensure the integrity and availability of your data

Reduce the risk of outages and downtime

Ensure data is always optimized

Keep costs down

Get continual access to data including interactive charts and tables that display the current state and historical data about jobs, databases, database partitions, data sets, and segments